I wanted to extend my congratulations to the class of 2008 on a job well done. You're graduating today, and while I know the likelihood that you'll be checking any blogs today is slim, I wanted to say I'm proud of you. You're all awesome and you should know that.

This project we tried to implement to welcome you all didn't get as much of a response as we'd hoped, but I know that at least Valerie found us. :)

So, friends and now fellow alums, congratulations! I hope you'll keep in touch.

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This is the best news story I've read in a long time. How awesome is this?

A violinist who left his 285-year-old instrument in a taxi in the United States is playing a concert to thank the driver who returned it to him.

Philippe Quint is giving a private 30-minute performance on Tuesday in the cab waiting area at Newark Liberty International Airport.

He left his violin, a 1723 Kiesewetter Stradivarius, in a taxi on the way back from the airport last month.

The driver, Mohamed Khalil, got in touch the next day to return it.

The violin is older than our country and worth more than four million dollars. And the violinist held the "thank you" concert not in a concert hall, but at the cab waiting area at an airport. Plus the family of the taxi driver is going to his next concert at Carnegie Hall in September. :)

I like when I can find good news like this in heaps of not-so-good and just-plain-awful news.

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